Local Environment and Economic Development Toolkit (LEED) Level 1 Workshop - TVCA
Outline of the workshop Topic Lead 9:00 Introduction and housekeeping Chair, Linda Tuttiett, Head of Culture & Tourism, Combined Authority 9:10 Presentation: Introduction to ecosystems services, Professor Edward Maltby input/output 9.25 Presentation: Overview of LEED as a tool Tim Sunderland, Principal Economist, Natural England 9:35 Presentation: Local Economic Plans and Priorities; Strategic Keith Wilson, Economic Strategy & Economic Plan (SEP) Intelligence Manager; Sarah Walker, Investment Manager TVCA 9:50 Points of clarification on presentations All 10:00 Exercise: Mapping growth priorities and their dependence on All the environment and relationships 11:00 Tea break 11:15 Presentation: Opportunities and Threats Tim Sunderland 11:30 Group sessions: Opportunities and Threats All 12:15 Feedback and responses: Opportunities and Threats All 12:45 Summary and close Linda Tuttiett and Tim Sunderland
Outline of the workshop Topic Lead 9:00 Introduction and housekeeping Chair, Linda Tuttiett, Head of Culture & Tourism, Combined Authority 9:10 Presentation: Introduction to ecosystems services, Professor Edward Maltby input/output 9.25 Presentation: Overview of LEED as a tool Tim Sunderland, Principal Economist, Natural England 9:35 Presentation: Local Economic Plans and Priorities; Strategic Keith Wilson, Economic Strategy & Economic Plan (SEP) Intelligence Manager; Sarah Walker, Investment Manager TVCA 9:50 Points of clarification on presentations All 10:00 Exercise: Mapping growth priorities and their dependence on All the environment and relationships 11:00 Tea break 11:15 Presentation: Opportunities and Threats Tim Sunderland 11:30 Group sessions: Opportunities and Threats All 12:15 Feedback and responses: Opportunities and Threats All 12:45 Summary and close Linda Tuttiett and Tim Sunderland
Importance of the work of nature - Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital Professor Edward Maltby University of Liverpool
Ecosystem Services • Producing goods and services requires natural Apples • Natural capital capital as well as human and manufactured capital • As well as direct products Staff • Human capital – such as apples for cider - nature offers many less • Manufactured Factory tangible, but equally capital important services
UK NEA Ecosystem Goods & Services (for people) Wetlands contribution to water quality worth 1.5billion/year
Functional Carbon sequestration gradients Floodwater detention Nutrient & contaminant transformation Food chain support • SWIMMER | University of Liverpool
Cherwell floodplain with no floodplain 1998 flood flow at Oxford
Wetland values Insh marshes, Spey valley (1100 ha floodplain) ▪ Flood defence worth £83k p.a. ▪ Other economic, recreational, educational and cultural values not yet quantified (NEA, 2011) £10 million investment in wetland restoration and management could save £650 million in treating nutrient and topsoil-laden water over 30 year period (SouthWest Water)
Waterfront properties command large price premium UK average 54% Southwest 66% East Anglia 43% Southeast 42% Estuaries 82% Rivers 53% Lakeside 37% Knight Frank Prime Waterfront Index May 2013 Lake Champlain, USA 587 miles waterfront = property enhancement $98 billion
UK Human Health Dimensions • Direct economic costs obesity: 6.4 billion • Wider related costs: 27.0 billion by 2015 Forsight Report (2012) • Mental illness costs: 22.8% total disability burden • Wider economic costs: 105.2 billion Dept. Health (2010) • Our Natural Health Service. ‘Walking our way to health’ Natural England (2009) access = 2.1 billion / year savings to NHS = 2.3% costs • ‘physical activity in natural environments is associated with a reduction in the risk of poor mental health’ Mitchell, Soc. Sci. Med. (2013) • Enhances well-being e.g. - property values - community coherence
Valuation of Scotland’s environment ▪ 11% total economic output dependent on natural environment £172 billion ▪ 14% full-time jobs 242,000 jobs (2008) ▪ White-tailed Sea Eagles contributes 5 million to economy of Isle of Mull and supports > 100 jobs (SNH,2012). Expenditure by freshwater anglers in England and Wales ▪ Supports £1 billion household incomes 37,000 jobs ▪ Public willing to pay £350 million/year to prevent a disease causing decline in salmon (2007) • SWIMMER | University of Liverpool
Responding to the challenges Economic analysis demonstrates that: ▪ Failure to include valuation of non-market goods in decision making leads to poor resource management ▪ Value of ecosystem services varies spatially If recognise the value of ecosystem services, UK can move towards a more sustainable future and services that are equitably distributed
A New York example • Aim: to reduce combined sewer outflows into the harbour • Method: using street trees, swales, bio-infiltration, blue and green roofs to capture first inch of rainfall on 10% of the city (1) . • This will save $1.5 billion dollars over a grey only approach (1) . 1) NYC ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 2010. NYC Green Infrastructure Plan: A sustainable strategy for clean waterways.
This is What We Could Lose Potential to lose up to an additional 1,750 square miles of land over the next 50 years Predicted Land-Water Change Over Next 50 Years Individual Project Comparisons Ecosystem Services (Example: Upper Breton Diversion 250,000 cfs)
Agricultural Dependence on Conservation of Amazonas Ecosystem Amazon Rainforest “ Water Pump ” Evapo-transpiration puts 20 billion tonnes of water into the atmosphere daily, some of which falls as rain in the Rio Plata Basin … (Global Canopy Programme & Canopy Capital Ltd, 2008) A Trillion-dollar agricultural economy in Latin America (Mato Grosso/ Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay ) depends on this “ Water Pump ” 1
Outline of the workshop Topic Lead 9:00 Introduction and housekeeping Chair, Linda Tuttiett, Head of Culture & Tourism, Combined Authority 9:10 Presentation: Introduction to ecosystems services, Professor Edward Maltby input/output 9.25 Presentation: Overview of LEED as a tool Tim Sunderland, Principal Economist, Natural England 9:35 Presentation: Local Economic Plans and Priorities; Strategic Keith Wilson, Economic Strategy & Economic Plan (SEP) Intelligence Manager; Sarah Walker, Investment Manager TVCA 9:50 Points of clarification on presentations All 10:00 Exercise: Mapping growth priorities and their dependence on All the environment and relationships 11:00 Tea break 11:15 Presentation: Opportunities and Threats Tim Sunderland 11:30 Group sessions: Opportunities and Threats All 12:15 Feedback and responses: Opportunities and Threats All 12:45 Summary and close Linda Tuttiett and Tim Sunderland
Purpose of the LEED toolkit The toolkit will support Internal External Local Enterprise Partnerships to make Strength Opportunities Positive operational sense of complex environmental information , so that it can support vision Weaknesses Threats Negative development through feeding in to SWOT analysis .
Outputs • Solutions which require a • an assessment of the change in the economic opportunities and plan (strategic solutions) threats to the LEPs plans or for increasing local Gross • Solutions which do not Value Added (GVA), require a change in the economic plan, and can • based on the be addressed through economy’s specific programmes of dependencies upon the projects (tactical environment solutions)
Inputs and outputs to the economy Regulating Services Goods Economy Energy and Services Material Inputs • Minerals • Provisioning Services Wastes and Emissions Cultural Services Land use changes
How does it work? socio- 1.Economic economic Goals planning situation 2. Physical waste & resource use economy emissions 3. Relationship Provisioning Regulating Cultural with the services services services environment Opportunities Strategic Tactical 4. Outputs and Threats Solutions Solutions
Decision-making under uncertainty • Gaps in evidence or uncertainty need to be highlighted • But important to avoid assuming that recommendations cannot be made based on the lack of evidence • Important to ensure decisions are as fully informed as possible - evidence-informed exploration • Subjectivity is inevitable – transparency is needed for outcomes to be relevant to LEP/LA planning needs • Outputs from the LEED should be seen as an exploration of possibilities, not policy statements
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